Colin Staub is a reporter at Resource Recycling. He can be contacted at [email protected].
A panel of experts discusses contamination during a plenary session at the 2018 Resource Recycling Conference.
Industry stakeholders from around the nation convened in St. Louis last week for the 2018 Resource Recycling Conference, where the hottest topics in materials recovery received attention over two days of educational sessions.
A nationwide campaign for standardized recycling labels on collection bins has received $50 million in donated ad space from some of the largest media groups in the country.
Another major importer of recyclables in Asia is drafting policy to reshape its relationship to materials recovery. But this time, the move could actually be a boon to exporters.
A reclaimer and end user will open a $35 million facility in North Carolina, taking in HDPE and mixed-plastic bales for its internal use and for sale as regrind on the market.
Scrap plastic shipments to Malaysia will be subject to new restrictions in the coming weeks, as the country follows through on its vow to get a handle on skyrocketing imports.
A major Chinese paper company will add recycled pulp production lines at two U.S. virgin fiber mills it purchased earlier this year, and both will consume mixed paper and OCC.
A major U.S. recycled paper end user will begin accepting fiber bales that contain foodservice packaging at its mills across the country.
An idled Washington newsprint mill will reopen to produce containerboard from recycled feedstock.
The Continuous Improvement Fund (CIF) recently looked into the efficiency of using collection-vehicle drivers to pick out contamination and other approaches that could lead to cleaner streams of recyclables.
